Field Activity 1995-008-FA

Identifier 1995-008-FA
Alternate names 5008ELUS
Purpose Resurvey the nearshore area off Wrightsville Beach using high-resolution sidescan sonar and bathymetry. Area was previously mapped in 1994.
Location Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Comments Project = Geomorphic Analysis Shoreface/Inner Shelf Imagery, Geomorphic Analysis Shoreface/Inner Shelf Imagery
Platform
Elusive
46 feet
Itinerary
Start Wilmington, NC 1995-07-23
End Wilmington, NC 1995-07-31
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -78.6689
East -77.146
North 34.81275
South 33.63292

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators William C Schwab
Crew members
Jane F Denny
Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Rob Thieler - Duke Univ.

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sampling, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Geology, Sidescan, Single Beam

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, seismic line list.
Q-Mips log Q-MIPS Sidescan sonar log containing line and file names, start and end times, data acquisition notes.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
DGPS Navigation 3
Klein 531 sidescan Sidescan 1
Grab sampler Biology, Geology 1
12 kHz Single Beam (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1995-008-FA-BA-001 DGPS Floppy disk(s) containing NAV-DGPSL1-14, NAV-DGPSL15-29, NAV-DGPSL30-38, COVERAGEL1-38, BATHY, Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-008-FA-LN-001 DGPS Navigation trackline plot for field activity 95008 Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-008-FA-LN-002 DGPS Floppy disk(s) containing NAV-DGPSL1-14, NAV-DGPSL15-29, NAV-DGPSL30-38, COVERAGEL1-38, BATHY, Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-008-FA-SO-001 Klein 531 sidescan Digital tapes of SSS-KLEIN L1-38 and SSS-KLEIN FIGS1-8: inventory #4279, 4280, 4281, 4282, 4283, 4284, 4285, and 4286. Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-008-FA-SC-001 Grab sampler samples Brian Buczkowski

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity